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When approached by the Daily Echo, a woman in one of the three caravans said: “I don’t want you here taking any pictures – we have got children here and it’s an invasion of our privacy.”

Small children holding bottles peered out of one caravan as the woman told the Echo: “You’ve got no right to take any pictures of us.”

It is understood that an eviction notice has been served on the three vans and the occupants have been told they have to leave within a week.

A spokeswoman for Dorset Police said a patrol vehicle had been in the vicinity of Fleetsbridge during the morning and had stumbled across
the convoy of travellers. She said police were not escorting the vehicles.